tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 27 10:13:35 1996
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Re[2]: Klingon writing tool
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: Klingon writing tool
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:06:59 +0200
At 04:12 AM 5/22/96 -0700, bangteH wrote:
>Personally, I'm discounting modern typefaces. I'm assuming that the pIqaD was
>invented before moveable type. And remember, Latin letters were chiselled
with
>"all those serifs".
>
>"They were derived from hand-drawn glyphs, but the derivation is no longer
>obvious"
>I'm not going to insist but I do think that the Klingons wouldn't involve
>themselves with a million or so fonts when one works quite well, dammit.
>(grinning)
Actually they can trace all of the Roman type back to ancient Egypte. The
letter "A" that we use today, actualy derives from an ancient Egyption glyph
which was a drawing of a bull. Most other Romanized letters can be traced in
this same way.
Qapla'
beHwI"av